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When Elvis sang Are You Lonesome Tonight little did he know it would become the theme tune for his little girl.

Her divorce from Lockwood is yet another shattered dream for Lisa Marie, whose father died of a heart attack in 1977 while awash with prescription drugs.

The brunette beauty with her father’s distinctive eyes, full lips and square jaw, thought she had found happiness with guitarist Lockwood, the musical director for her band, who became her “best friend” and lover in 2005.

“I just had this idea we would be perfect together,” she said.

“I’ve never had a relationship like this before.”

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Elvis's daughter was also short term spouse of actor Nicolas Cage

None of her relationships could be called “normal” – but how could they be, for a girl raised amid the self-indulgent craziness of Elvis’s Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, with her father’s private jet named after her, watching her parents divorce when she was five and her father die when she was nine?

I just had this idea we would be perfect together

Lisa Marie Presley

After Elvis’s death her mother, actress Priscilla Presley, found some books on Scientology among his possessions and reached out to member John Travolta for guidance.

Priscilla became an active member of the Church of Scientology, and raised Lisa Marie in the same beliefs. Lisa Marie credited the religion with ridding her of a youthful drug dependency, admitting: “Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now,” according to the church’s website.

Yet it cast a long shadow across her life, as did her search for a father figure. Lisa Marie’s first marriage, aged 20, was to prominent Scientologist Keough in 1988 and they had two children: actress and model Riley, now 27, and Ben, 23.

“I had been really sheltered,” she recalls.

“I got married the first time very, very young. There was so much resentment about who I was. It is hard for a man to be with a woman who is stronger, wealthier. So in my mind I’m thinking I’ll get with someone more compatible.”

They split after six years as Lisa Marie plunged into an improbable 1994 marriage with Michael Jackson . It was a union she calls “the biggest mistake of my life.

"I wasn’t thinking what everyone else was thinking, which was that I must have been out of my f****** mind.”

Yet within months of their wedding the pop icon found himself on trial for child molestation. Though Jackson was acquitted, Lisa Marie quickly fi led for divorce, ending their marriage in 1996.

But, as her father once sang, she can’t help falling in love. In 2002 she flung herself into a tumultuous marriage to Cage, which lasted only three months.

“Marrying him was a wild flurry, a crazy idea,” she says.

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The singer calls her union with Michael Jackson 'a mistake'

By then she had launched her own singing career, and while modestly successful it was clear she was not going to fill her father’s blue suede shoes. But then she fell in love with band member Lockwood.

She said: “I had a crush on him from the minute I met him. I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve chased all the crazies down. But the other guys were fun – for a while.”

They wed in 2006 in a traditional Japanese wedding in Kyoto, and following the heartbreak of several miscarriages had twin daughters, Harper and Finley, aged seven.

But it was a crowded marriage: her ex Keough remained a constant fixture, even playing bass in Lisa Marie’s band and joining the family on holidays.

“He is still very close,” she explains.

“We will all be together for vacations . We’re like brother and sister. He’s a great dad.”

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He saved her from utter despair at a traumatic time in her life, Lisa Marie admits: “Everyone was leaving my life, although that was people exposing themselves for what they were. So there was good light in the tunnel.”

Lisa Marie is understood to be referring to Scientology leaders who made her question her beliefs and she began to pull away from the religion.

Even living reclusively on her three-acre ranch in Hidden Hills, north of Los Angeles, she felt under Scientology’s watchful eye, fleeing in 2010 to an £8million 15th-century rural retreat on a sheep farm in Rotherfield, East Sussex.

“I had to leave LA,” she says.

“I was surrounded by people who were not well intentioned – confidantes very, very intimately and closely involved with me and my life, and who had been for years.

“Basically it was a big sinister situation, where there was like, kind of covert ops going on, and a whole effort to control me… I uncovered it and it was mindblowing, and I just was done with people at that point. I was pretty devastated. It was a four or five-year process.”

In England she found tranquillity – for a while.

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Lisa Marie's first marriage was to Scientologist and little known singer Danny Keough

“I have taken to country life and love all aspects of living here,” she said recently, highlighting her enjoyment of gardening and cooking.

“The people who live here are so sweet and normal. I needed that more than anything.”

But that was not enough to save her marriage to Lockwood. They separated this month and she fi led for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences”.

Clearly concerned about Lockwood’s influence on their twins, Lisa Marie has asked the LA Superior Court to grant her full custody.

Her fortune is protected by a pre-nuptial agreement that was negotiated in happier days but she still wonders if the Presley name is a blessing or a curse.

“With anything that’s good there is bad, with everything in life,” she says.

“I would never complain. I would never wish to be anyone else.

“We are always learning something and there’s always a reason for it.

Hopefully you have learned something, something that you can change and grow stronger from it and get better from it. I don’t know who would say they lived a life who didn’t regret some stuff.”